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The SharePoint Virtual Summit will be May 16.
The free, global online event will show users how to take advantage of SharePoint, OneDrive and the rest of the Office 365 collaboration toolkit to create a connected workplace, Seth Patton, general manager for Office 365 product marketing, explained this week.

LAS VEGAS — Adobe's technology partnership with Microsoft will help businesses connect with customers in richer ways because it combines cloud infrastructure, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and data analytics technology.
Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of the cloud and enterprise group for Microsoft, shared those insights this morning on the main

For Office 365 customers, the introduction of Office 365 Groups has gone from rocky start to increasing acceptance.
The feature name initially caused some confusion. The launch of Outlook conversations took the lead in Microsoft marketing efforts, but after some time and backtracking the purpose of Groups became clear.

Microsoft today announced general availability of Microsoft Teams, its chat-based workspace in Office 365.
The announcement comes four months after Microsoft unveiled a preview of the product, prompting competitor Slack to run a caustic full-page New York Times ad. Since then, Slack has launched its own enterprise edition and Google

Microsoft is beefing up its SharePoint mobile app with new features for iOS and Android.
Microsoft, which announced it was working on mobile apps when it released SharePoint 2016 last year, unveiled an early access release for Android phones at its Ignite conference in September.

Not long after the closing bell rang on Wall Street yesterday, Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff and IBM Chairman, President and CEO Ginni Rometty announced a global strategic partnership between their companies to advance the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in the enterprise through an integration of Salesforce Einstein and IBM Watson.

Gimmal is kicking off life under the ownership of a private equity firm with an acquisition that adds new capabilities to its information management and governance solutions.
Houston-based Gimmal, which Rubicon Technology Partners bought in January, today announced the acquisition of RecordLion, an information governance and records management software

Boston-based harmon.ie is taking steps to unify disconnected information from multiple cloud services, all within the Outlook inbox.
The company, which provides a suite of products to support the digital workplace, is sharpening its focus by pulling its existing Collage tool into Outlook, harmon.

Microsoft has finally pushed SharePoint Framework into general release. It's arguably the upgrade the developer community has been most eager to get its collective hands.
SharePoint Framework allows developers and administrators to build and deploy parts that are used by Office 365 users in their production environments.

The business intelligence and analytics platform market's multi-year transition to modern agile business-led analytics is now mainstream — and the market is still evolving.
That's the word from Gartner in its latest Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics Platforms.

When it comes to email, Google's Gmail still holds a significantly larger marketshare than Microsoft's Outlook. But keep an eye on the Microsoft space.
Last July the company unveiled Focused Inbox, its answer to Gmail's Inbox, which separates important form non-important email.

Let's face it: work isn't cool.
Organizations have been trying for years to increase employee adoption of tools — and make work fun in the process — by incorporating gamification into the work environment.
Gamification hasn't increased employee engagement and motivation the way organizations hoped it would.

Microsoft has made another significant step in pulling SharePoint Online deeper into the wider Office 365 productivity suite.
In a little remarked-upon announcement on the Power BI blog last week, Senior Program Manager Lukasz Pawlowski announced the availability of the Power BI report web part for SharePoint Online.

When companies want to get their employees adopt SharePoint, they would always think of providing training. But, they never stop to think of a better way to provide training. They forget that some training methods just work better than others.

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